A GENDERED PERSPECTIVE ON INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE

Abstract Life satisfaction is defined as the perception of individuals concerning the level of meaning, fulfillment, and satisfaction in their life. It has shown to be an important indicator of older persons’ perceived ability to pursue their life goals. The present study evaluated the relationship between older mothers’ and fathers’ perceptions of their relationship with their children and their life satisfaction four years afterwards. We relied on the Health and Retirement Study, which is a representative sample of US citizens at the age of 50 and over. In total 1071 continuously married couples participated in both 2006 and 2010 waves and completed the leave behind questionnaire. Relying on path analysis, our findings show that fathers’ life satisfaction in 2010 is associated with perceived support from their children in 2006. Mothers’ life satisfaction in 2010 on the other hand, is associated with perceived support from their children as well as with lower levels of perceived strain in the relationship with their children in 2006. Results are discussed in relation to gender roles in the second half of life as manifested in intergenerational relationships.

University, Beijing,Beijing,China (People's Republic),3. Bar Ilan University,Ramat Gan,HaMerkaz,Israel Previous research indicated that online games represent a unique context of intergroup contact but may enhance prejudice toward outgroup players during gameplay.Despite the growing number of older gamers and increasing opportunities of online in-game intergenerational contact, few study have focused on the online in-game intergenerational contact and its effect on ageism.To address such research gap, we designed an online quiz game by manipulating in-game intergenerational contact type (competition vs. cooperation) and game outcome (win vs. loss).148 young participants (Mage = 22.71, SD = 2.88) and 155 older participants (Mage = 65.4,SD = 4.23) were recruited and randomly assigned into the four experimental conditions to play with a virtual game partner of opposite generation.Positive and negative dimensions of age-stereotype perception, individual's cooperative orientation, and potential covariates were measured.Results showed significant intergenerational contact type × outcome × cooperative orientation effects on the perception of negative old-age-stereotype among younger participants and positive young-age-stereotype among older participants.Younger participants showed significant more negative old-age-stereotypes under competition loss (vs.win) condition, but older participants showed significant more positive young-age-stereotypes under cooperation loss (vs.win) condition.The findings indicated the negative impact of intergenerational competition among younger participants in the online game context, and also suggested the internalized self-ageism among older participants.Moreover, the boundary condition of personal factors revealed, that the effects of in-game intergenerational contact were only significant among those of lower (vs.higher) cooperative orientation.Our study also offered practical implications on designing gamified intergenerationalbased intervention.

KINDNESS INTERVENTION AND SELF-PERCEPTION OF AGING: AN INTERGENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Dwight Tse 1 , and Ewan Cahill 2 , 1. University of Strathclyde,Glasgow,Scotland,United Kingdom,2. Glasgow Caledonian University,Glasgow,Scotland,United Kingdom Performing acts of kindness can enhance benefactors' well-being.However, few studies have examined its impact on older benefactors.This study aimed at evaluating this intervention among older adults and exploring "side benefits" beyond well-being.Specifically, given the negative stereotype on older adults as unproductive and incompetent, we hypothesized that acts of kindness could combat against older adults' internalized negative self-perceptions and enhance their self-concept.We conducted a randomized controlled experiment with 45 participants in the United Kingdom aged 61-80 (73% female).In the experimental condition, for 14 consecutive days, participants recalled up to three acts of kindness they did for others on that day and planned up to three acts of kindness on the next day, as opposed to listing up to three places they were at in the control condition.Surprisingly, our pre-test post-test comparison revealed no significant difference in well-being improvement between the two conditions.
Compared to the control group, the experimental group showed an improvement in attitudes toward own aging, especially for their age-related cognitions in the gain (vs.loss) domain.Beneficiaries were mostly family members (34%), followed by community members (25%) and friends/colleagues (21%).For intergenerational acts of kindness, participants reported similar frequencies of younger and older beneficiaries (compared to their age) and provided predominantly emotional (vs.instrumental) support.Taken together, performing acts of kindness may help older adults counteract negative aging stereotypes and see themselves in a more positive lens as productive and competent members of society.

MORE FILIAL PIETY FROM ADULT CHILDREN, MORE POSITIVE SELF-PERCEPTION OF AGING IN OLDER PARENTS?
Yuanqing Chang, and Xin Zhang, Peking University, Beijing, Beijing, China (People's Republic) Filial piety, as a central concept in Confucianism, is about the ideas of how children should treat their parents.Previous studies on filial piety have focused on older generation's well-being.However, whether filial piety of adult children could influence their parents' selfperception of aging on a longitudinal dyad basis is largely unknown.Drawing on the Dual Filial Piety Model and the intergenerational contact perspective, we investigated the differential impacts of authoritarian vs. reciprocal filial piety of adult children on older parents' self-perception of aging using a longitudinal parent-child dyads dataset from a large population-based survey (i.e., Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, CLHLS) from wave 2002 to wave 2005.Self-perception of aging of older parents was measured at two time points, authoritarian and reciprocal filial piety of adult children was measured at wave 2002.Latent change score modeling was performed on a 2387 parent-child dyads sample (Mage = 80.03, SD = 9.86 for parent; Mage = 48.54,SD = 8.10 for child) to test our research hypothesis.Results showed only reciprocal filial piety of adult child at wave 2002 could positively predicted their parents' latent change score of self-perception of aging 3 years later, after controlling for potential covariates.Our study suggested that the effects of adult children's filial piety might have different effects on parents' aging attitude, such that a reciprocal parent-child relationship rather than child's submission to parents could improve parents' attitude toward their own aging.

A GENDERED PERSPECTIVE ON INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE Liat Ayalon, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, HaMerkaz, Israel
Life satisfaction is defined as the perception of individuals concerning the level of meaning, fulfillment, and satisfaction in their life.It has shown to be an important indicator of older persons' perceived ability to pursue their life goals.The present study evaluated the relationship between older mothers' and fathers' perceptions of their relationship with their children and their life satisfaction four years afterwards.
We relied on the Health and Retirement Study, which is a representative sample of US citizens at the age of 50 and over.In total 1071 continuously married couples participated in both 2006 and 2010 waves and completed the leave behind questionnaire.Relying on path analysis, our findings show that fathers' life satisfaction in 2010 is associated with perceived support from their children in 2006.Mothers' life satisfaction in 2010 on the other hand, is associated with perceived support from their children as well as with lower levels of perceived strain in the relationship with their children in 2006.Results are discussed in relation to gender roles in the second half of life as manifested in intergenerational relationships.

EMBRACING THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE IN GERONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
Chair: Sara Bybee Co-Chair: Austin Oswald Discussant: Vanessa Fabbre Halberstam describes the queer art of failure as a performance of dissidence in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer plus (LGBTQ+) people willing reject traditional conceptualizations of success.Yet, dominant theoretical frameworks in gerontology are predicated upon notions of success and productivity which may be problematic for understanding the life trajectories of LGBTQ+ people.The use of such heteronormative frameworks has implications for gerontological research in two important ways: 1) Research methods and researchers themselves may be constrained by the normative expectations placed on LGBTQ+ people and 2) Heteronormative frameworks obscure the nuance of LGBTQ+ older adults' lived experiences and may limit important contributions to gerontological knowledge.This symposium applies the queer art of failure to examine LGBTQ+ aging scholarship that deviates from traditional research and education.Speaker one shares experiences from LGBTQ+ individuals facing dementia, using concepts that counter framing dementia as pathology and decline.Speaker two discusses how participants' preferences for receiving research results via found poetry may reflect LGBTQ+ participants' natural inclination to question hegemonic norms.Speaker three describes collaborating with a coalition of LGBTQ+ older adults of color on a participatory action research study, detailing how epistemic tensions shaped the research in unexpected ways.Speaker four discusses how institutional failure led to enthusiasm for LGBTQ+ curriculum development, student mentoring, and knowledge production.These presentations suggest that the inclusion of diverse conceptualizations of success and productivity should inform future aging scholarship, as they may center the experiences of historically marginalized populations such as LGBTQ+ older adults.

LIVING WITH DEMENTIA: EXPERIENCES OF LGBTQ PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA AND SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
Anna Siverskog 1 , and Linn Sandberg 2 , 1. Södertörn University,Stockholm,Stockholms Lan,Sweden,2. Södertörn university,Huddinge,Stockholms Lan,Sweden Dementia is commonly conceptualized in biomedical terms as a deterioration of brain function and a subsequent loss of self.However, dementia scholars have increasingly underscored how the self of the person with dementia may be maintained through social interactions in their everyday life.This may pose specific challenges for LGBTQ people who may not be out in care settings due to fear of discrimination and whose chosen family may not be recognized by formal care providers.This paper presents preliminary findings from a qualitative study conducted in Sweden with LGBT individuals living with dementia.The project builds on policy analysis as well as semi-structured interviews with LGBTQ people with dementia, people significant to them such as partners, family and friends, and interviews with frontline care staff and managers within dementia care.The thematic analysis illustrates how experiences of living with dementia as an LGBTQ person vary depending on the progression and type of dementia, the individuals' social support network, how open one is with their sexual orientation or gender identity, living at home or in a dementia care facility, socioeconomics, and other factors.In line with how other ageing scholars have pointed to the potentiality of queer theory to move beyond framing dementia as pathology and decline, concepts of queer time and queer failure are used here to understand the results in ways that disrupt notions of self, temporalities, normativity, subjectivity and what it means to age successfully.

PARTICIPANTS' PERSPECTIVES ON RECEIVING RESULTS USING FOUND POETRY: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY
Sara Bybee, Jacqueline Eaton, and Bob Wong, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Few researchers share study results with participants, often citing a lack of knowledge regarding how to do so.This study explored the dissemination preferences of study participants receiving results in the form of found poetry, developed from dyadic interviews with sexual and gender minority (SGM) and non-SGM couples' regarding their experiences with cancer.Participants (N=24) completed demographic and health questionnaires, a pre-posttraumatic growth-inventory-expanded (PTGI-X), and were randomized to receive the found poem as text, text and audio, audio, or video formats.Participants completed a post-PTGI-X, reported dissemination preferences, and emotions experienced.Open-ended responses demonstrated that using found poetry to disseminate results communicated that participant experiences were understood, fostered introspection, and renewed appreciation for their partner.Only SGM participants (n=3) reported preferring a format other than the one to which they were randomized.The text-only and combined text and audio formats evoked the greatest number of emotions (n=13 each) followed by video (n=4), and audio-only (n=3).Across randomization groups, interest (n=11) was most frequently reported, followed by sadness (n=8), and joy (n=6).Quantitatively, there were no significant changes in participants' PTG-a small sample size may have reduced statistical